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Ken White has been talking about the potential for this suit for a couple weeks now. He spends a lot of time talking about what isn't defamation --- people use defamation suits and threats thereof to chill free speech, and he's a 1st Amendment guy --- but the Dominion cases are apparently examples of very serious defamation cases.

The core of defamation is (1) a false statement of purported fact that (2) causes damage (there are some exceptions to (2) that aren't relevant here). Most defamation cases you hear about fall apart on (1) - they target non-falsifiable statements of opinion, which can't be defamation because they don't purport to relate an objective fact. What makes Dominion's cases terrifying is that they are chock full of purported facts, all of which are batshit, and have so devastated Dominion's reputation, in a reputation-intensive business, that it had to hire private security to protect its employees from death threats.

What makes the case challenging for Dominion is that they will almost certainly be treated as a public figure for the purposes of the case. The standard for defamation of a public figure is higher than that of a normal person; we add a condition (3): actual malice or negligence, meaning Dominion must show that Giuliani either intended to destroy Dominion's reputation by spreading facts he knew to be false, or that he was at least negligent, acting with reckless disregard for the truth.

The problem is that it's not totally clear whether Giuliani believed any of his crazy-talk. It may actually be the case that Giuliani is just off his rocker. If he himself was sold by the (false) facts he received from others, he is a more difficult defamation target.

Here's attorney Akiva Cohen analyzing the case a bit:

https://twitter.com/AkivaMCohen/status/1353700596407283721
I am disturbed by the number of times "user" is replaced with "consumer" and "computer program" with "company" or "brand". Language is important for keeping the goal in sight.

There is a science to designing human computer interactions. But there is a subtle difference between wielding that science in the service of the humans in those interactions (users) and wielding it solely in the name of increasing the company's bottom line. The former will lead to a better product, will improve customer satisfaction and lead to sales. The later leads to a dystopian, exploitative relationship, even when it increases revenue. The difference is the goal: Serving users or serving shareholders. The language of UX design needs to be carefully crafted to keep a the focus on empathy with users.
It's not hard, but there's also no silver bullet. Start by reading "How to Take Smart Notes" (Ahrens), which is a science-based review of second-brain/slip-box systems and then iterate on that until it fits your workflow.
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From a Japanese perspective, it also sounds very unlikely.
Go with UTF-8 strings is successful nowadays in Japan.
diesel? I doubt you have jet-a seaplanes there. It's gasoline, (though, the nasty kind, with lead)
can confirm, i too am positively surprised that most people i meet are absolutely willing to switch.
The exact same criticism can be applied to regular in-person voting.

It's a criticism of the concept of anonymous ballots, not actually a criticism of mail in voting.
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Or thinking about how they (mis)use the time they already have.
I really feel your pain on learning the manufacturing landscape, especially the point about manufacturers not being motivated by money. I'm about to launch something much less complicated than yours and I don't know how many times I've yelled 'do these people not like money?' after hanging up the phone.
Thanks for the correction, but it doesn't change my point: the amount of actual fraud was too small to make a difference by four orders of magnitude.
Amarisoft and Nexedi also launched a joint company called Rapid.Space last year. It combines cloud and 4G/5G infrastructure operation and is "HyperOpen" = using open-source software, open hardware and open service.

Press release: https://handbook.rapid.space/RS-Hyper.Open.Converged.Cloud.D...

More info on 5G technology: https://handbook.rapid.space/evangelist/RS-Presentation.For....

(disclaimer: I work for Nexedi and help out on Rapid.Space)
Apple added that very quickly after the scandal came to light. A clear sign that they knew it was wrong to artificially slow down customers' phones without notifying them.
To be fair, the author of the findings was trying to avoid such things happening, which were obvious to him. From the first link, it appears those efforts did not pay off.
People need to look at the actual numbers, which I think are revealing.

Top-end lithium-Ion batteries have an energy density, fully charged, of about 700 Watt-hours per kg, which converts to 2.5 MJ/kg.

Jet-A, and basically all similar refined hydrocarbons, have an energy density of 42 MJ/kg.

Is an electric plane impossible? Clearly not. Are batteries getting better and better? Absolutely; a few generations ago their density was < 1 MJ/kg.

But the numbers are still bad. 5% of the energy density for electric versus fossil fuels IF you use the latest & best.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25524472 is certainly not a complete replacement, but most of the time I used it locally so that would work.
Since Firefox has partnered with Amazon(SES) to filter spam, does it mean that Amazon can read our emails too?
It blows my mind that people still put cloud based cameras inside their homes.

I wonder how many of the people spied on would have called you a conspiracy theorist for saying they might be getting spied on.
So in the end UK lost even more control, the farce continues
You can't get an accurate community seroprevalence measure when your community is told to shelter in place.
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And then it doesn't make sense.

In your interpretation, a proposal of a value one attempts to deliver is a process wherein one takes many ideas, and boils them down to fewer ideas.

That is not what the meaning of the term “proposal” is; no one uses it to mean a process wherein many ideas are reduced to fewer. A proposal is simply stating one's plans, not a discourse.

> And I don't really think you actually have no idea what "product definition" may mean. :)

I normally have an idea, but not in this context, as it speaks of stages of a product definition. A definition does not have “stages”
That's why I buy reliable cars from established carmakers with proven reliability records. I buy used cars coming off their three year lease. Most leases require all the service be done on time and by the dealer so you know you're getting a quality used car - and I'm saving thousands of dollars. Then you drive it for five years because there's a market for people looking for cheap, reliable cars for second cars or for their kids to drive. Seems to work for all involved and for me personally, I'm minimizing my purchase price while minimizing my need to do major repairs.
There's also room for causality the other way, here. If feel you have a lot in common with your compatriots, and generally trust them, then you are (I claim) more likely to support paying taxes to support those who are having a rough time. High trust can lead to lower inequality.

Conversely, if you already feel you have nothing in common with others, then why not vote (if you have everything) to give them nothing, or (if you have nothing) why not vote to seize their property and distribute it?
I'm from South Africa and about 70% of my family and friends have switched to using Telegram now with more people joining every week. Signal nobody uses unfortunately.
Webcam: Logitech C920

Mic: a <$100 USB mic, I don't remember the exact model, but it's by FIFINE

Headphones: just standard ones

Do everyone a favour and buy a good webcame and a USB mic. :)
You can still have spam filters and block lists.
Yes, it's pretty common not to provide direct access to production data in general.

In my experience, migrations are usually part of the code base, evaluated as such with PR and whatnot, and run automatically when deploying.

It depends on the size and context of the company, but I would not necessarily see this as a lack of trust.
>AOL must have saw the writing on the wall

Dearie me!
Well, I mean of course an Old Boy's Network has more trust.

An echo chamber is trusting yourself and the other members - even when that trust is misplaced.

[ETA: does someone think I'm implying that's a good thing? It's not. It's bad for everyone, even the perpetrators.]
Yup :)

https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/sync/mutex.go

You can easily see what Go does here. It's not magic.
Reminds me of my games of Civilization. Should I spend few more turns to build additional engines to my spaceship, or should I launch it now and risk being overtaken by a faster ship.
If you don’t already understand that argument as a perfectly obvious concern, we will probably not agree. It is obvious to hundreds of millions, probably billions, of people all over the world.

I recommend you look for conversations outside your usual bubble, and when you find someone to ask questions of, don’t pair the questions with insults.
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> For example, let's say you start organizing by project. Pretty soon, there's overlap between projects and you end up re-documenting.

But there is no reason to re-document. It takes time and doesn't give anything for the project. I typically just have a "meta" folder within a project and any related pdf/video/html I stumble upon goes into that folder. I wouldn't care if a few projects share the same file.

In this case DRY also, in my opinion, only gets in the way. Say you abstract the knowledge to a separate system and start referencing it from your projects. What this does is it freezes the knowledge organization within your system. You cannot relabel things or move them around, because the links from projects to your knowledge base will get broken. This would only add unnecessary complexity and inter-dependance. DRY is one of those things I started looking at differently some time ago. Repeating yourself, in certain cases, can be faster, simpler and more maintainable.
Thank you, in the video I intentionally positioned Offbase as a "static site generator" and a "blogging engine" just to focus the minimal viable product and avoid confusion, but the actual platform I'm working toward releasing is really a generic shell that can run anything, the blogging package will be the one thing I will focus on building myself, but since it will be a completely open platform where you can download any git repository into the browser, anyone should be able to build their own package. For example you can build a documentation engine package, or an image editor package. And going further, even the static site generator logic itself is nothing more than a single use case where it simply runs a template logic and writes to the virtual file system, while using the service worker to render the files in realtime, for example. You can think of Offbase as something like Electron, but in a browser. This means a lot of things that you used to need a server for, you can build with Offbase purely inside the browser. Which means, I think Offbase may fit right in with what you're trying to build, it should handle a lot of headaches you might otherwise have. Will try to get this rolled out public as soon as I can, it's almost there, just trying to deal with some last mile problems and documentation.
"Nobody gives gigabytes of memory to each qmail-smtpd process"?

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QUESTION: "I read in a newspaper that in l981 you said '640K of memory should be enough for anybody.' What did you mean when you said this?"

ANSWER: "I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time."

https://www.wired.com/1997/01/did-gates-really-say-640k-is-e...

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If I were a cynical programmer I might think DJB just doesn't want to hand over a $500 check.
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I already have a rowing machine, I wish I could simply add the Aviron screen to it.
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These aren't accusations of voter (or election) fraud in the same sense as was being claimed for 2020. From your second link:

> During the tour's stop Friday in Seattle, Clinton pointed to FBI Director Christopher Wray's warning last month that Russia continues to pose a "very significant counterintelligence threat" and that efforts to influence U.S. elections with "social media, fake news" and "propaganda" has "continued pretty much unabated."
This just sounds like Google is building an API for browser fingerprinting. Advertisers send Google data, and get back a fingerprint of a user.

This is only "privacy friendly" because Google limits the accuracy of the fingerprint provided to advertisers by bucketing users into cohort groups. These groups are supposed to be large enough to prevent advertisers to identify individual users.

Google would still retain the ability to uniquely identify individual users.
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When I first looked at your website I wondered if you were a spin-off / subsidiary of Peloton. The whole design / feel feels identical to me. How close can the "look and feel" of two websites be nowadays before you get in trouble? (genuine question)

Honestly, I would consider trying to get your own, more independent look+feel, even if you by coincidence ended up with your landing page looking like Peloton.
As someone whose kid loves the beach - beach time with small children is very different from beach time as a childless couple. You have to constantly watch the kid to make sure they're not running into the waves, or eating sand, or throwing sand at other beachgoers, or about to fall into the creek. It's not at all as relaxing as going to the beach as a single person or couple is, for reasons entirely unrelated to how much going to the beach costs.
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Phew. The last thing I wanted to associate with the sweet sweet gas fumes was an ad.

Let me get mildly intoxicated in relative peace, thank you.
Data structures are largely universal concepts, but how you access and organize data structures differs by language. There are a lot of good books about reasoning data in an abstract way.

I am a JavaScript developer and here is an overview of what I know from writing in this language:

* objects (hash maps) are a list of key value pair. The keys are always strings and the values are of any data types. Keys must be unique. Just like hash maps in C, C++, Java, and other C-like languages keys are accessed randomly from memory until the requested key is retrieved. Knowing this opens the potential for low level performance hacks. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guid...

* arrays are a list. Unlike most strongly typed languages arrays in JavaScript are not bound to a fixed length or data type. Arrays of a single data type do execute much faster though due to improvements in the JIT compilers. A requested array index is retrieved from memory in index order, which is typically faster than accessing an object property by name, but not always. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

* Maps are a key/value pair similar to objects except the key does not have to be a string data type. The key name could be another object. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

* Sets are a list of values where each value is unique according to its data type and actual value. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

* Weak Map - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

* Weak Set - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

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The biggest problem I have seen through my career with people's approach to data structures is to treat the data as a value set, like something retrieved from a database query, instead of a structure like a program class or function. That distinction is huge and will change how you perceive programming. The difference is that you will see a structure is an abstract set of relations to walk where a data value is something to blindly throw code at until you get the answer you want.

For example file systems are data structures. You can blindly search a file system for something, but that is lazy and slow. Instead if you have a general idea of what you are looking for you can walk there with a bit more effort in a fraction of the time.

JSON is a common data reference scheme based upon JavaScript's objects and arrays.
I completely agree with you, but...

> because logic just doesn't work for tech

is more than a little ironic to me. I suppose it's like people saying you can't 'out-logic' a judge through a technicality, or that the law does not mean they are Perfect Laws of Logic; they're designed to be interpreted by judges.

I admire the EFF though, and I support what they advocate for. I was going to say I'd like them to be more pragmatic, but I suppose their hardline opinions are most of the reason they exist as an advocacy organization.
> The second advantage is that they are fairly quiet.

Do you have data to back that up? I was under the impression that most of the noise came from the propeller, at least for non-ducted fans.
All the things I mentioned were entirely bipartisan affairs. In fact, we just witnessed the president who initiated the Iraq War feted and lauded by the press for his appearance at the inauguration of a new president from the "opposing" party who enthusiastically endorsed that war as a Senator.

The counterculture left is a very broad category, with some legitimate and organic elements mixed up with some very confused, self-indulgent, or aimlessly subversive ones. But it didn't fire the first shots in the attack on trust, not by a long shot.
I admit that my requirements are not the standard ones, I just thought this might be useful info for other people who, like me, thought they'd be perfect for working from home
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Actually they're doing this not for environmental reasons but for financial reasons. There's been articles written about it, including interviews with the executives of the company itself talking about why they're making the switch, which you can find on Google if so inclined. It's cheaper to operate these electric seaplanes to the point where it's worth the capital investment for the company.
How long are your typical workouts?
Although the RSS feed is very basic. No description or thumbnails. Also premiers show up before the are available and other inconveniences.
I always felt a large missing aspect was the realism as it relates to water. In particular, on a machine you neither feather nor feel variable resistance due to how vertical your blade is. There are a lot of specific details that the machine doesn't capture that I think make the actual experience on the water much more thoughtful than just pulling as hard and fast as you can.
solar panels are the wrong dc voltage, so some sort of conversion is needed. I'm no EE, but my understanding is you go through AC and a transformer anyway in most cases.
Other than the Hackernews comment from a couple days ago suggesting this, do you have an links to sources saying these seaplanes use leaded fuels?

I'm not disagreeing, I just want to make sure we're talking about real things and not starting rumors.
Ring Central seems appallingly expensive to me with their per-seat pricing (we are a software company, I need people to receive calls with a professional sounding IVR, route them to the right individual, local numbers for customers to call on, that's it).

Can you recommend any specific provider?
Has anyone calculated at the current rate of leaks how long would it take for every human on earth to be in some of these lists?
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My issue is I always like the next best thing. What that takes the form of isn't always obvious even to those who know me. Some are making mock fun with me over the fact my Tesla is nearing three years as I do tend so swap nearly every other year if not earlier.

However from my 17 Volt to my 18 Tesla 3 I am now only considering BEVs, I really cannot reason myself back into a petrol powered car. With motorcycles there is no real alternative if you want to travel. For the most part they are still in "Leaf" tech with only dipping their toes into liquid cooling the pack and or motor. Worse is that most are useless for commuting as they don't have storage space or wind protection; protection which would improve their aerodynamics.

Late 2021 promises to have a much wider selection and 2022 should be a watershed year for EVs. Car wise I would love a good four seat convertible option. To me the EV power and open air travel were just meant to go together, too bad VW doesn't see fit to bring back the Beetle in that form as both previous incarnations were ideal for EV
This use case is for a 1-2x /yr event, not an every day thing. Also, solar panels do nothing for you if there is a power outage when there's no sun...
No the situation still holds if you send two requests on different network cards to entirely different networks that share nothing.
I have another problem as I do take notes to help me focus and remember things. The problem I noticed is that I never really have time to go back to my notes unless I am searching for something specifically. Linear notes with a date usually help me locate the info I am looking for.

So I'm wondering, how do people review their notes? When? Are they using a strategy for this? Also I'm not really looking to commit to memory my notes.
Perhaps there could be a ranking that takes posting frequency into account, and lets people decide whether they want to see higher- or lower-volume blogs.

Perhaps not a straight ascending or descending by frequency. For me, the sweet spot seems to be no more than once a month. More if it's one that does something like a weekly post aggregating interesting articles from other blogs.
Long time high level rower here. Why make a new rowing machine when Concept 2 is the calibration standard all athletes use and has a relatively open USB interface?

For those not in the know, rowing machines all have different calibrations. C2 is the standard because they're very consistent across machines and are by far the best made allowing for many thousands of hours of use without failures. Most experienced rowers won't touch anything other than a C2.

Edit: reading further, the 'moat' here appears to be electrically controlled 100lb high resistance settings. Be VERY careful with this. It's well established that most non-trained athletes will hurt themselves with this feature as it's a common trope on C2 machines. The rowing posture can be rather dangerous for high weight if misused.
Exactly.

If car A produces 1 tons of emissions to build, and 100 tons over its life, and car B produces 2 tons of emissions to build, and 50 tons over its life, car B is the better one for the environment. (52 < 101)

Looking at emissions to build as a metric by itself is disingenuous, you should look at lifetime emissions instead.
Ah yes, also known as europe down under.